Indian flexible packaging firm Uflex is planning to build a new $325m packaging plant in the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat. Scheduled to start production in early 2016, the new plant is part of the company's three-year investment plan to ...
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The international clothing brand Esprit has unveiled its first-ever recycled Autumn/Winter apparel collection with the R Cert verification tag from the Hong Kong based environmental sustainability promoting NGO Redress’. Designed by ...
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The decline in cotton price and slowing demand for apparel and other textile products in key North American and European markets have put tremendous pressure on synthetic pricing in the past several months. The global synthetic fiber price ...
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The latest report by the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) and the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) has revealed that the US recorded a recycling rate of 31.2% for PET bottles last year. This ...
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BioAmber Inc., an industrial biotechnology company producing sustainable chemicals, has signed an exclusive supply agreement for bio-based succinic acid with Xuchuan. Under the terms of the 5-year contract, which runs from 2015 to the end ...
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RadiciGroup companies Noyfil SA and Noyfil SpA have chosen the highest level of transparency by adopting the UNI 11505:2013 standard, for measuring and declaring recycled material content of their r-Radyarn and r-Starlight yarns, made from ...
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The Japanese casual wear brand Uniqlo is set to expand the line up of its kidswear and babywear offerings by nearly 50 percent with the launch of new Fall/Winter 2014 season collections. The brand, which is trying to bring up the ...
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PPG Industries' coil and building products group has published the Building Products Coil Coatings Color Guide, an eight-page brochure featuring 100 coatings color samples categorized according to eight product lines and five resin ...
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Vertellus has introducedf two new natural oil polyols that have been developed primarily for 2 component solventborne industrial maintenance applications. Polycin XP 100 LV and Polycin XP 200 LV are 100 percent solids castor oil-based ...
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INVISTA™, one of the world’s largest integrated producers of polymers and fibers has named Paolo Briatore as the new Business Director Apparel South Asia and Managing Director INVISTA™ India Sales & Services Ltd. INVISTA ...
"Pricing is always determined by market forces. In terms of value creation, MEG prices are a bargain today. However, MEG has been one of the most attractive ethylene derivatives in the last five years,” says a senior official of a ...
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Finland based VTT Technical Research Centre, Aalto University and Tampere University of Technology are together developing novel recycled textile fibres in the Design World of Cellulose project, a major technological scheme of Tekes - the ...
Polyester clothes stink more than cotton clothes after work-out, as bacteria that cause the bad smell grow more on polyester clothes, according to a report by the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. According to the research, ...
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Peter Gabriele, Vice President, Research and Development and Jeremy Harris, Ph.D., Technical Director, will present "Anatomy of a Next-Generation Bioresorbable Coating for Medical Devices" during a live webinar on Tuesday, September 23 at ...
Scott Bader Asia Pacific is exhibiting advanced composites at the 20th China International Composites Industrial Technical Expo (CCE 2014), taking place from 3-5 September at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Centre. This ...
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